Treatment of chronic venous insufficiency

Current Treatment Options in Cardiovascular Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 115-126

  Rathbun, Suman W ^a   Kirkpatrick, Angelia C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AESCULUS HIPPOCASTANUM EXTRACT; AMINAPHTHONE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BICARBONATE; CEFALEXIN; CEFAZOLIN; CEPHALOSPORIN; CLINDAMYCIN; CREATINE KINASE; CREATININE; DAFLON; DICLOXACILLIN; DIURETIC AGENT; ERYTHROMYCIN; ESCIN; FLAVONOID; FLUOCINOLONE ACETONIDE; FUROSEMIDE; HERBACEOUS AGENT; HYDROCHLOROTHIAZIDE; NAFCILLIN; PENICILLIN G; PINUS PINASTER EXTRACT; PLACEBO; PLANT EXTRACT; RUTOSIDE DERIVATIVE; STEROID; TRIAMCINOLONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; VANCOMYCIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ANXIETY; BICARBONATE BLOOD LEVEL; CELLULITIS; CHRONIC VEIN INSUFFICIENCY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPRESSION THERAPY; CONSTIPATION; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; CREATINE KINASE BLOOD LEVEL; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DERMATITIS; DIARRHEA; DIZZINESS; DROWSINESS; DRUG COST; DRUG INDUCED HEADACHE; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG OVERDOSE; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; EPIGASTRIC DISCOMFORT; FATIGUE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEART PALPITATION; HEARTBURN; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERPIGMENTATION; HYPOTENSION; INFECTION; INFLAMMATION; INSOMNIA; LEG EDEMA; LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION; LOW DRUG DOSE; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; MONOTHERAPY; MUSCLE CRAMP; MUSCLE TRAINING; NAUSEA; NEPHROTOXICITY; PHLEBITIS; PINE; PINUS PINASTER; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; PRURITUS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SCLEROTHERAPY; SIDE EFFECT; SKIN NECROSIS; STOMACH DISCOMFORT; TASTE DISORDER; THERMAL INJURY; ULCER; VARICOSIS; VERTIGO; VOMITING; XEROSTOMIA;

EID: 34249712307     PISSN: 10928464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11936-007-0005-6     Document Type: Review

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